Battle of Ivankovac

Battle of Ivankovac
	Part of the First Serbian uprising
	; Map of the battlefield
Date	18 August [O.S. 7 August] 1805
Location	Ivankovac, Sanjak of Smederevo,; Ottoman Empire (today Serbia)
Result	Serbian victory
Belligerents
Revolutionary Serbia;	Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Karađorđe Petrović; Milenko Stojković;	Hafiz Mustafa Pasha †
Strength
initially 2,500 men, later reinforced with 5,000 more	20,000 men

The Battle of Ivankovac (Serbian: Бој на Иванковцу/Boj na Ivankovcu) was the first full-scale confrontation between Serbian revolutionaries and the regular forces of the Ottoman Empire during the First Serbian Uprising.

In the Summer of 1805, Hafiz the Ottoman pasha of Niš, gathered an army to crush the Serbian rebels led by Milenko Stojković near the village of Ivankovac. The battle ended with a Serbian victory and the death of the pasha, prompting Ottoman Sultan Selim III to declare jihad (holy war) against the Serbs.

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